The love life of a male blue-lined octopus is tough. Like praying mantises and widow spiders, a female blue-lined octopus will often kill and eat the male after mating. It's just a circle of life for ...

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The California two-spot octopus is a solitary creature. How exactly they manage to find suitable mates has been one of the ocean’s best-kept secrets. Now scientists have discovered that male octopuses ...

Among animals, few life cycles are as dramatic as that of the octopus. After a single reproductive event, many females enter a rapid decline that ends with them literally tearing at their own bodies, ...

The researchers primarily studied California two-spot octopuses. Jerry Kirkhart via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Octopus sex seems like a very dignified affair. A male octopus hands his sperm to ...

Octopuses are one of the strangest creatures on Earth. They have no bones, making their bodies incredibly soft; they can change color like chameleons; they have three hearts; and their blood is ...